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Everything Band: Episode 117 - Dale Trumbore

6/24/2019

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Dale Trumbore is a successful composer and the author of the recently released book Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life​. She joins the show to talk about her career, her music, and to talk about issues related to anxiety for musicians.
Topics:
  • Dale’s background and her journey to becoming a full time composer, including some lessons learned from an influential teacher.
  • Dale’s career as a composer including her choral music, how she finds text to set, and the value she sees commissions bring to students.
  • A long discussion about anxiety and strategies for coping with it in a creative career.
  • Some actionable tips for working through creative blocks.

Links:
  • Dale Trumbore, Composer
  • Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life
  • Trumbore: In the Middle
  • Yoga with Adriene
  • Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium

Biography:
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Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer and writer whose music has been praised by The New York Times for its "soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies." Trumbore's compositions have been performed widely in the U.S. and internationally by ensembles including the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Children's Chorus, Modesto Symphony, Neave Trio, Pacific Chorale, Pasadena Symphony, The Singers – Minnesota Choral Artists, and VocalEssence.

Trumbore is Composer in Residence for Choral Chameleon and was previously Composer in Residence for Nova Vocal Ensemble. She has been an Artist in Residence at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Copland House, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and Willapa Bay AiR.

How to Go On, Choral Arts Initiative's album of Trumbore's choral works, debuted at #6 on Billboard's Traditional Classical Chart. Choral Arts Northwest, The Esoterics, Helix Collective, New York Virtuoso Singers, and soprano Gillian Hollis have also commercially recorded works by Trumbore. Her published choral works are available through Boosey & Hawkes and G. Schirmer.​
As a composer who works frequently with words, Trumbore is passionate about setting to music poems, prose and found text by living writers. She has written extensively about working through creative blocks and establishing a career in music in essays for 21CM, Cantate Magazine, the Center for New Music, and NewMusicBox, and she is the author of Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life.

Trumbore holds a dual degree in Music Composition and English from the University of Maryland and a Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Southern California. A New Jersey native, Trumbore lives in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of L.A. with her fiancé and their two cats.
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